Mr. Bryant says: “They have one of them computers, only one in town, only one for miles, far as I know, and they film all the ugliness they do.” — Is the reference to computers out of place or appropriate in its context?

Do you keep such a notebook or perhaps a diary? If so, are you afraid of losing it?

Bonus challenge: Write a story in which a notebook or diary is lost and yet mysteriously returned in the mail. It is marked up in red pen with commentaries by an anonymous “editor.” What might the diary say? What might the editor say? What might the diarist think? Would the result be funny? Tragic? Spooky?